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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov

there is an upper limit of the number of individuals that can make up a functioning
colony. The greater the number of individuals truly functioning within the colony, the

more complex and sophisticated are the behavioral reactions seen in the colony. What
parameters determine the upper limit of the number of individuals sharing a joint psi-
field?

a) the extent of the joint psi-field which determines the size of physical territory
needed for survival, and controlled by the colony; its living space.

b) the density of the colony’s unified psi-field that is in effect a result of the mixture
of all individual constituent psi-fields. This indivisible joint psi-field has a critical

density. Increasing the density beyond the critical point results in adverse effects on
the colony with suppression of functioning and, ultimately, destruction of individual
members within the colony.

c) incomplete attunement of the individual psi-systems with one another, which in
the case of excessive numbers, may lead to a lack of coordination within the entire
colony and make it non-viable.

The optimum quantity of individuals in the colony is regulated by the colony itself.
Thus, the psi-system (nervous system) of an individual termite, ant, or bee, is only
a single unit in the far larger psi-field of the entire colony. Similarly, with
multicellular organisms it would be correct to consider the entire colony as a
superorganism, since only this type of a colony is viable and able to adapt to changes
in the environment. Individual members of a colony cannot act on their own, just as

individual cells of a multicellular organism cannot exist alone. The shared psi-systems
of a colony can solve fairly complicated tasks that arise in the struggle for survival.
This has allowed species possessing such psi-fields to survive and preserve themselves
over the course of almost three billion years.

While the superorganismic state is advantageous to individuals of the species that

comprise the state, such a system blocks the individual of the species from attaining
the level of development necessary for individuation (the separating out of oneself from
the surrounding environment). This occurs because of the following reasons:

1. Each individual moves freely within the territory occupied by the colony, so,
accordingly, the interactive force between the psi-field of the individual and that
of the shared psi-field of the colony changes constantly.

2. In contributing to the shared psi-field of the colony each individual utilizes only a
neurophysiological “reserve”, which is activated when the organism is threatened.
Normalization and regulation of individual organismic functions are maintained by
other neurons of the central nervous system. One result of this split in function is a
decrease in the life span of the individual.

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